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Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success?

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

SW Bangalore – September 2012

Schedule

Friday

Feb 22

5:00pm Registration Starts
6:30pm Welcome
7:20pm Speakers
8:30pm Pitches Start
10:00pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
11:00pm Teams start forming and discussing ideas
11:30pm Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Feb 23

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Call for needs & skills
2:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
6:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
10:00pm Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Feb 24

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00am Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
12:00pm Lunch
12:30pm Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
3:00pm Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
4:00pm Dinner
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:30pm Judging & awards
8:30pm Wrapup
9:00pm Go home!

Speakers

Dave McClure

Founding partner at 500 Startups

Dave McClure is a venture capitalist & founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, CA. He likes to hang out with entrepreneurs, and occasionally invest in startups foolish enough to let him. He has been an investor in over 250 companies including Mint.com, Twilio, Wildfire Interactive, SendGrid, TaskRabbit, SlideShare, Mashery, CreditKarma, KISSmetrics, and MakerBot, among others.

Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twilio, Mint.com, Simply Hired, O'Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft. Years ago he used to do real work like coding or marketing or running conferences, but these days he mostly does useless stuff like sending lots of email, blogging, and hanging out on Facebook and Twitter.

Andrea Zurek

Founding Partner, XG Ventures

Ms. Andrea Zurek has been an active angel investor since 2006. Ms. Zurek has been named one of the top 25 tech angels by Businessweek. In addition, she has been named one of "25 Influential Business Women in San Francisco/Silicon Valley You Should Follow on Twitter 2010". She has also been profiled in the 2009 Top 40 Under 40 in the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and most recently in San Francisco Magazine.
Ms. Zurek worked at Google for over 7 years, starting in early 2000, as one of the first ad sales executives. She built and managed the West Coast sales region, leading over 30 sales people with annual bookings of $100M+. She was responsible for inking over 200+ deals of new business, across multiple verticals, including building original partnerships with eBay, Wal-Mart, E*Trade, CNet, Cisco, and Macy's.

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Judges

Bharati Jacob

Founder- Partner of Seedfund | LinkedIn

Bharati Jacob is the Founder- Partner of Seedfund based in Bangalore. She brings over 24 years of diverse and rich experience in venture investing, marketing and financial services. She has been in venture investing since 2000 across 3 funds. She began her investing career with Infinity Venture Fund in 2000 as part of the start up team. Prior to Infinity, she was head of the investment bank Lazard in South India and established Lazard offices in Chennai and Bangalore. Her responsibilities included operations and business development with P&L responsibility for both offices

Ravi Gururaj

VP-Cloud Platforms @ Citrix / Co-Founder @ Harvard Business School Alumni Angels / Charter Member @ TiE Bangalore | LinkedIn

Specialties: Virtualization, cloud computing infrastructure, cloud storage, eCommerce, SaaS, collaboration, wireless & mobile software, enterprise software, building India engineering teams, start-up accelerators & incubators, founding / growing / advising / mentoring start-ups, strategic technology development, R&D management

Vijay Anand

Vice President Intuit | LinkedIn

Vijay Anand is responsible for leading the Intuit India Development Center (IDC). In this role he is responsible for formulating the vision and strategy for IDC to become one of Intuit’s premier development centers worldwide and support Intuit’s quest to be a premier innovative growth company.
The strategy that Vijay has articulated has three key elements — First, build a center of renown by hiring and developing world class technical talent that is skilled in the unique Intuit approach of customer driven innovation and design for delight. Second, perform world class engineering and deliver global products reliably and with high quality that delights millions of customers. Finally, leverage the proximity to the biggest emerging markets in the world by innovating new products that address unmet need and grow the business.

Subramanya S V

Director at Bessemer Venture Partners

Subramanya (Subu) S.V., a director with BVP India in Bangalore, joined the firm in 2007. He currently focuses on investments in technology and consumer businesses.

Subu was closely involved with the firm’s investments in IL&FS Transportation Networks, Palogix Infrastructure, Tulip Telecom, Anantraj Industries and Riddhi Siddhi Gluco Biols among others.

Prior to joining Bessemer, Subu worked with Avendus Capital, an Indian investment bank, where he advised companies on private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Previously, he was a consultant with KPMG and started his career as a programmer with Wipro Technologies.

Sanjay Swamy

Managing Partner @Angel Prime

Passionate marketing executive with strong desire to mentor and lead entrepreneurs in developing disruptive technologies and business models - and introducing these in emerging markets. Areas of specialization range from Mobile Content, Mobile Commerce, Billing and CRM and eProcurement. Based out of Bangalore, India - following several years of experience in Silicon Valley.

Specialties: Wireless, Content, Media, Enterprise Software, Digital Rights Management

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Coaches

Anjali Gupta

EIR GSF India | Twitter LinkedIn

Anjali Gupta has founded startups in E-commerce, Translation, and Language technologies. She has been featured by DEMO, Entrepreneur, CNBC, and India Today. She has an MBA from Wharton, and has earlier worked at Amazon.com and Netegrity. Anjali loves exploring ideas that create new markets or tap consumer behavior. She lives in Bangalore, and can be reached via her blog anjaligupta.com

Dan Harrelson

Design Technology Lead, GE

A self-described “geek with a love of design,” I draw from a rich palette to create exceptional user-centered products. I have been working at the intersection of design and development for over 15 years. As a thought-leader in user experience (UX) and technology, I help teams envision and build the products their customers want. My expertise influences product design across many platforms such as mobile, consumer electronics, kiosks, television, and web applications.

Bringing a unique tech perspective to product design, I love to help clients solve difficult problems. From vetting concepts for feasibility to testing them with rapid prototyping, my work drives product success for industry leaders around the globe. Some of my past clients include HP/Palm, Zappos, FedEx, Sun, Visa, Art.com, Western Union, Rackspace, Mozilla, Apple, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, and SanDisk.

Sree Vijaykumar

Managing Director, TradeBriefs

Founder and Managing Director of TradeBriefs, a business e-newsletter company that empowers Indian professionals with industry expertise and jobs. Past experience includes advising global retailers such as Best Buy, Woolworths, 7-Eleven and Dillards on strategic and operational imperatives. Goal is to enable adoption of best practices in the Indian Retail industry and add value to the lives of business professionals by providing timely and relevant news, insight and jobs.
Currently on the Advisory Council of Asia Retail Congress Speaker at CII Retail Logistics Conference 2010 and PE Insights Retail Investment Summit 2009

Specialties: Internet Business Media, B2B Marketing, Retail strategy and operations,

Joydeep Sen Sarma

Co-Founder and Head Qubole India at Qubole | LinkedIn

I worked on different things at FB, in rough chronological order:
- started Hadoop at FB - installing, writing first set of jobs, populating first set of datsets from Scribe and Mysql for consumption by other engineers.
- conceptualized and built internal prototype for Hive and then co-authored open-source Apache Hive as part of Data Infrastructure team.
- managed Data Infrastructure team (about 10-12 people) for about a year. Collectively - the team shipped open-source Hive in this timeframe as well as an internal workflow engine (Databee), new site instrumentation (Nectar), browser based query authoring tool for Hive (HiPal) and FairScheduler for Hadoop.
- contributor of architecture team for FB Messages - prototyped back-end on Cassandra and HBase and made HBase happen at Facebook.
- contributor to FB Credits back-end - helped build credit tracking system, wrote the reporting back-end for FB credits, set up data warehouse for all FB credits data and worked with Finance and IT to put new reporting tier in production for delivering payouts to developers.

Prateek Sharma

Co-Founder & COO of Mygola | LinkedIn

Specialities : Product Management, Product Development. Launching a product from concept. Go to Market Strategies,

Prateek Dayal

CEO at SupportBee

I have about four years of web development experience. Apart from building Muziboo (300K+ users) and SupportBee (private beta), I have also worked as a consultant for several companies. I am a passionate programmer and a usability enthusiast.

In my pre-startup days, I have worked on embedded software and wireless communication research.

Specialties: Web Development, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, SEO, Linux Servers and Product Development

Kyle Wild

CEO Keen.io | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Engineer by training, entrepreneur by nature.

I was the kid selling cookies to other kids in the 4th grade. building content websites & selling ads in the 8th grade. selling domains in the 9th grade. I was in high school when the bubble burst, and I shifted my focus to engineering & building competitive teams to compete in online strategy games.

But as a software engineer, data scientist, and scalability geek, I've got some chops

Crystal Rose

Executive Producer, Digital, Phenomenon | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Executive Digital/Integrated Producer with 12 years of experience managing teams and directing projects across multiple platforms, with a focus on web and digital landscapes.

I assume the various roles required to oversee all aspects of production in a digital agency atmosphere

George Karidis

Chief Strategy Officer, SoftLayer

Results-oriented strategic planning and marketing professional with 15+ years of experience in setting US and global strategy for telecom, managed services, software and outsourcing businesses. Extensive expertise in market assessment and development, business planning, competitive and primary research, project management, product and services roadmap development, and management of media and analyst relations. Well developed communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills at all levels of an organization.

M. ThiyagaRajan

Innovation Leader & Manager at Intuit

M. ThiyagaRajan( Rajan ) supports various grass roots innovation initiatives at Intuit. A key job is to help engineers become more customer and business savvy (help think like startup product managers) He coaches engineers in Intuit's best practices such as LeanStartup experimentation & Design Thinking to help fast track progress from Ideas to Impact.

Prior to this he was an entrepreneur and played product management roles at mobile start-ups & companies in OEM, Operators, Appstore & Enterprise markets. A big believer in building communities of practices and have been involved with several industry communities (MoMoB, NPC).

Rajan holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering from IIIT-H. He ocassionally tweets at @mtrajan

Mukund Mohan

CEO in Residence, Microsoft Accelerator at Microsoft

I am an entrepreneur, and have founded & sold companies in the Internet and Mobile domains. I have also invested in the seed stage at 7 startups in India (over 3 years) and 27 in Silicon Valley (over 10 years).

I sold BuzzGain (Do it Yourself PR software company) to Meltwater in Jan of 2010.

I am a seasoned executive with experience at large companies including Cisco and Hewlett Packard. As an entrepreneur, I started and had successful exits with 3 companies before BuzzGain.

My experience spans 15 years in direct sales, marketing and product management and alliances / partnership in software and Internet industries. My vertical expertise spans Financial Services (Insurance and Investment banking), Telecommunications and Retail.

Specialties: Marketing, Direct Sales, Product Management, Engineering and Technology Management and Partnerships/ Alliances.

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